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Exalted And Exceptional

A History of Modern France. Vol. 2. 1799-1945. By Alfred Cobban. (Penguin Books 5s.) France, Steadfast and Changing: The Fourth to the Fifth Republic. By Raymond Aron. (Harvard......

Bad In Parts

Germany Divided. By Terence Prittie. (Hutchin- son, 30s.) TERENCE PRITTIE is the Guardian's Bonn corre- spondent — we have all read and admired his dispatches—and the title of......